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Two of the world’s most powerful telescopes, located atop Maunakea, played a vital role in producing the world’s very first image of a black hole. Hawai‘i-based James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and Submillimeter Array (SMA) are part of the unprecedented Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project.
July 20, 2019
Aloha to our scientific colleagues around the world, On behalf of the more than 500 people employed by the Maunakea Observatories, we offer a perspective about […]
July 15, 2019
By Doug Simons, Executive Director of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Since the state announced construction restart plans of the Thirty Meter Telescope, uncertainty about what lies ahead […]
April 10, 2019
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope & Submillimeter Array Help Unlock One of the Universe’s Greatest Mysteries Two of the world’s most powerful telescopes, located atop Maunakea, played […]
October 5, 2018
The hunt for exoplanets (planets outside of our Solar System) is a hot topic in Astronomy and the Maunakea Observatories certainly impacted history with their early […]
October 2, 2018
Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our Solar System. The new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto has an orbit that supports […]
September 22, 2018
Maunakea, Hawaii – Galaxies and dark matter go hand in hand; you typically don’t find one without the other. So when researchers uncovered a galaxy, known as […]
September 3, 2018
Maunakea, Hawaii – When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of […]
August 6, 2018
Through the use of GRACES – a fiber optic coupling of Gemini-N and CFHT –a star was detected that is moving at an extremely high velocity and […]
August 6, 2018
Keck and CFHT proved what separates real stars from wannabes through their observations of low mass stars and brown dwarfs. The lead astronomer (Trent Dupuy) is […]